Bowl barrow north of Hobbin's Belt, 900m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery

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History & significance

Bowl barrow north of Hobbin's Belt is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial monument situated within the Seven Hills barrow cemetery near White House Farm in Suffolk. The barrow is of the characteristic bowl type, a simple mounded earthwork constructed over a primary burial deposit. It forms part of an important grouping of funerary monuments that demonstrates the ritual and commemorative practices of prehistoric communities in this region. The Seven Hills cemetery represents a sustained focus of burial activity across the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, with individual barrows distributed across the landscape in a manner typical of later prehistoric funerary practice.

Bowl barrow north of Hobbin's Belt, 900m south-east of White House Farm: part of Seven Hills barrow cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011445. View the official record →

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